Senior employees claim the $17m project threatens the Mikhailovsky Palace building and its collections

We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018

Country's president Joseph Kabila made the announcement ahead of opening of revamped Africa Museum outside Brussels

They assailed the trustee's business ties to the tear gas fired by US border agents

The Norton Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College show that museum expansions can take different sizes and forms

The English architect’s “jewel box” weekend retreat has been restored to its original condition

The Los Angeles institution counters that it will keep on fighting to maintain the linchpin of its collection

We asked officials at ten major sites how prepared they were—with alarming results

Decision to take case to court prompted a public outcry and an online petition

Many World Heritage Sites around the Mediterranean are at grave risk from sea-level rise by 2100, report says

Comprehensive analysis of 29 pieces from ten institutions could be “the best weapon against forgery”

Visitors at the Polar Museum might learn incidence of homosexuality among penguins

Klaus Albrecht Schröder says contemporary art acquisitions, criticised by Austrian Court of Audit, will fill a gap in country’s public museums

Getting around the inalienability of public collections is dealt with in the report—but it might not work legally and practically

Museum aims to clean and analyse all 28 of its vedute paintings of Venice by spring 2020

Difficulties began when the museum asked HW Architecture to work pro bono

New-look galleries invite visitors to explore inside Victorian plaster cast of Roman monument

Meanwhile, the museum partners with a Chinese tech firm to digitise its catalogued collection

Major conference in Berlin this week marks anniversary of landmark agreement

Works by Dineo Seshee Bopape and Klaus Weber go on show in the revamped 19th-century neoclassical complex

River of Life depiction has been newly reattributed to J & R Lamb Studios

The museum will name a film centre after Debra and Leon Black

The museum will mark its anniversary in 2020 by launching a renovation of the Rockefeller Wing and celebrating its permanent collection

The painting, which took the artist less than an hour to paint, was restored for the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition opening in London this week

The museum celebrates the tenth anniversary of the installation, which is still "full of surprises"

Structural engineers and architects were among those restoring the room-sized cast at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says

Sculptor’s Méta-Harmonie II is ready for action after a year-long conservation effort in Basel

The Minneapolis museum’s former director, Olga Viso, announced her departure a year ago

The Battel Hall retable, which survived the fury of 16th-century iconoclasts, bears later scars of graffiti and "witchmarks" against evil spirits